I haven’t mentioned Mel Gibson’s new film Apocalypto thus far because I haven’t really known what to say about it.

Gibson’s latest is another non-English-language film. Apocalypto takes place about 600 years ago during the decline of the Maya, as the Spanish were about to conquer them. The Maya, as we’ve mentioned here before, were famous for their ceremonial headdresses, their pyramids and especially their calendars.

By most reports, Apocalypto is a beautifully made, brutal film. A pair of recent reviews on Ain’t It Cool News disagree about its quality; one calls it out as one of the best recent films; the other review describes some of its motifs as cliched heavy-handed.
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Neil Marshall, who directed the horror flick The Descent and the the UK werewolf series Dog Soldiers is working on a new film called “Doomsday”, starring Rhona Mitra, recently of Nip/Tuck. Doomsday is a story about a group of people trying to prevent the outbreak of a plague that killed hundreds of thousands of people 30 years before.

The Film Asylum - It’s ‘Doomsday’ for Rhona Mitra.

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According to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), former Slovenian president (or premier) Janez Drnovsek predicts that we’re heading towards doomsday.

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Treehugger ran an article a while back that showed a timeline of how the earth would recover following the immediate exit of the human race. The atmosphere recovers rather quickly, within 10 years, with it taking 100 years for cities to be overgrown and up to 50,000 years before most traces of us are gone.

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I know Bill Moyers mostly from “Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth”. Moyers brought out the best in Campbell. In Campbell’s other videos, he was the geek professor to a tee; with Moyers he became the inspired prophet for gen-x and the 90’s.

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Charlie Brooker of the Guardian Unlimited has a short piece on doomsday scenarios.

Via: Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | Charlie Brooker: Supposing … We invent some decoy doomsday scenarios

This flash animation will help put the End of the World in perspective: The End of the World

I love it when one apocalypse coincides with a completely different apocalypse.

Solar flares are the violent ejection of material from the sun’s atmosphere. This explosion is extremely powerful, dwarfing any man-made explosion that has ever happened, and can affect things well past Earth’s orbit.
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